Continuing the wonderfully fascinating piece from yesterday’s episode, all about the dynamics & game theory at play in a hash war between Mars’ Muskcoin, and Earth’s Bitcoin; as well as the gold rush to colonize

Equal parts entertaining & intellectually intriguing, we start with Part 1 of Dhruv Bansal’s wonderful piece, Bitcoin Astronomy! The interplanetary center of hash, the Law of Hash Horizons, the Muskcoin Revolution, retaliation of the Bitcoin

To think that a hard monetary asset, with a perfectly inelastic supply, could go from a $0 market with no infrastructure, liquidity, or demand, to a global monetary instrument with vast infrastructure, the highest market

Following the anniversary of Ross Ulbricht’s arrest, and the fall of the Silk Road experiment, we read a short but extraordinary piece, hand written in a cell by Ross, on Bitcoin’s promise of freedom. What

Quick Read #300!!! Hard to believe we have come this far withou the show. For this milestone it’s time to take it back to the philosophical roots of the movement that lead to the community,

Every so often a major development comes along that combines the available tools and you suddenly see a sharp image of what the future could look like. With Olympus, a new service from Jack Mallers

With another great piece from the Breez-Tech CEO we read and explore the fascinating concept of the Lightning Service Providers. What is their role? How will the market develop? Doesn’t this mean Lightning is centralized?

Today we take a dive into the future of Lightning and one of the amazing developments to make it simpler and more reliable, the new sighash flags referred to as the “Noinput Class.” Who better

The only thing as scarce as Bitcoin, is Time. Do you value it accordingly?

For today’s read we are diving into our first piece from the awesome collection over at Epsilon Theory by Ben

Concluding the “Bitcoin” section of Money, Bitcoin & Time. So many fascinating aspects of Bitcoin covered by author Robert Breedlove in this section including:
• A new form of life
• The many-sided

Jumping back into Robert Breedlove’s great piece with a thorough exploration of Bitcoin as a money, a technology, a network, and a measure of time.

• The Cost and Reward of Proof-of-Work
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Today we read a veritable Bitcoin Manifesto on a fundamental truth of Bitcoin’s nature, the challenge it proposes to the state, the atrocities it seeks to dismantle, the hubris of alternatives, its promethean origins, the

If you were looking for a succinct summation of the philosophy and to understand why we are so avid about using Bitcoin, encrypting our communication, and why we think these things are critical for a

Today we start into the second piece of the “Gradually, Then Suddenly” series by Parker Lewis. Why altcoiners can claim their coin is for something other than money, but it must compete with Bitcoin as

“What is money? That is the beginning of the real rabbit hole.”
Like the process of going bankrupt, how fiat money inflates, and what it feels like to learn Bitcoin… it happens gradually, then

Harold Thomas Finney (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014)

In one of his last posts on the BitcoinTalk forums, Hal Finney posted a short message about his past, finding Bitcoin, working with Satoshi, coming

Today we continue our journey through Robert Breedlove’s thorough work by completing section 1 on the incredible history & profound nature of money.

• How prices are the economic nervous system
• Histories of

The network effects that tie society together through its community, language, and money are both incredibly powerful, and very difficult to measure. We continue with Robert Breedlove’s broad piece covering all of the core ideas